Soulfly were actually not added to the archives until quite recently. Their most recent album was the first release by the band to be considered predominantly metal by the Archives staff. A band cannot be added until it has a predominantly metal release, but it's non-metal material can be listed in the band's discography after it is accepted to the site.

According to the blacklist they're a cover band. The songs are based on soundtracks of Zelda games.They are rather far from the originals, though, so this seem to me to be a debatable case. On the band's Bandcamp it's also implied that the originals were mere inspirations.

What about Ech-Pi-El-Gog-Desecretus by thergothon? Why can't I add this as an album/demo? If "Dancing in the Realm of Shades" can be added as a non released demo then why can't I add Ech-Pi-El-Gog-Desecretus?

What about Ech-Pi-El-Gog-Desecretus by thergothon? Why can't I add this as an album/demo? If "Dancing in the Realm of Shades" can be added as a non released demo then why can't I add Ech-Pi-El-Gog-Desecretus?

If Dancing in the Realm of Shades was never released, a mod should remove it ...

Why was FINAL DOCTRINE blacklisted? They're a black/death band (the name is taken from a REVENGE track) on Primal Vomit Records. I own the tape & sell it in my distro, pics and proof of physical existence can be provided. A track from their demo is on youtube:

I would respectfully disagree. I would say the main difference with other black/death or "war metal" bands would be the lack of solos, but the riffing itself is solidly in the black/death camp. I don't hear any crust influence at all to be honest.

What about Ech-Pi-El-Gog-Desecretus by thergothon? Why can't I add this as an album/demo? If "Dancing in the Realm of Shades" can be added as a non released demo then why can't I add Ech-Pi-El-Gog-Desecretus?

If Dancing in the Realm of Shades was never released, a mod should remove it ...

Yeah, removed. Never heard of "Ech-Pi-El-Gog-Desecretus", but I assume it's a bootleg or unreleased recording. Only official releases (that have also been, you know, released to the public) may be added to the discography section.

I would respectfully disagree. I would say the main difference with other black/death or "war metal" bands would be the lack of solos, but the riffing itself is solidly in the black/death camp. I don't hear any crust influence at all to be honest.

I really don't hear how "the riffing itself is solidly in the black/death camp", to be perfectly frank. Punk through and through. I agree with Tony, that one track is crust/grind.

I would respectfully disagree. I would say the main difference with other black/death or "war metal" bands would be the lack of solos, but the riffing itself is solidly in the black/death camp. I don't hear any crust influence at all to be honest.

I really don't hear how "the riffing itself is solidly in the black/death camp", to be perfectly frank. Punk through and through. I agree with Tony, that one track is crust/grind.

@Avalon: Removed.

Fair enough... as someone who runs a metal label & distro as well as having been heavily involved in the punk scene for well over a decade, booking shows & writing for magazines & whatnot, I have to disagree, as I hear no punk at all, but rather lo-fi Revenge/Conqueror worship minus the distinctive solos. But in the end it's your call as to whether they're listed here, not mine. I will go on record, though, that I think you're quite incorrect in this case.

Okay, as the guy who originally blacklisted the band (mind you, I thought they were great) I can honestly say there were zero riffs in what tracks I heard. The vocals are punk, yes, but I'd pin this closer to noise than punk or metal. There's no riffs, and the guitars are mainly being used to provide a backdrop of distrotion/wall-of-noise... whereas Revenge, on the other hand, have actual riffs being play.

Okay, as the guy who originally blacklisted the band (mind you, I thought they were great) I can honestly say there were zero riffs in what tracks I heard. The vocals are punk, yes, but I'd pin this closer to noise than punk or metal. There's no riffs, and the guitars are mainly being used to provide a backdrop of distortion/wall-of-noise... whereas Revenge, on the other hand, have actual riffs being play.

Have you heard the whole tape or just the sample track on youtube? The tape has slightly more clear sound. I don't have the ability to upload it unfortunately, or even the know-how.

14th? On that day that submission was rejected for the same reason as yours. He again submitted it then later that day and when someone looked at it the next day it was approved. He better should have waited until it really is the 15th, too, but seems like it wasn't noticed during the remaining 6 hours. You, on the other hand, were several days too soon and did only resubmit when the other entry was already approved.

The guy who submitted it is from Germany, despite what the timestamp says it was May 15th in his time zone when he moved it to the queue. So what it comes down to is that both submissions were roughly equal in terms of completeness and history, but he was a bit faster in resubmitting on the correct date. Your submission was still a draft when his was resubmitted (and still when his was approved), i.e. not even visible in the queue. What do you want us to do? Should we have waited for you to resubmit? Why? Should we now delete his submission and approve yours? In what way would that be more honest/fair?

That's why you should always go with the release date. If there had been a submission by a third user, first submitted on the correct date, that one might have been picked instead. It's not always easy juggling multiple submissions for more popular bands and make everybody happy, but we have to pick one in the end.

I heard this band used to be on this website, but later were blacklisted. However, I'm surprised since the band sound metal enough to me. I mean yeah it's true they got some rather rock ballads like Far From Home, Remember Everything, Tragic Truth, etc. However, the band sound metal enough. I'll explain below.

First of all, I've heard many people call them a "metalcore" band. But obviously they're not even close to that. Since metalcore has stereotypical breakdowns, heavier hardcore influences and elements and stuff like that. Metalcore is like Killswitch Engage, Bleeding Through, Avenged Sevenfold, Unearth, etc but could also be bands like Hatebreed, Texas in July, Converge, Earth Crisis, Bury Your Dead, Integrity, I Am War, While She Sleeps, Emmure, Acacia Strain, etc. However since some think metalcore has both harsh vocals (growls/screams) and singing. FFDP just angrily yell then start singing. But that doesn't make them metalcore. I've heard Testament do some harsh growls then do thrashy singing. But Testament are thrash metal and are nowhere close to metalcore. I've heard a few call them a nu metal band. However that's ridiculous since they have no hip-hop/90s-alternative elements in their music which nu metal has and sound nothing like Korn, Limp Bizkit, OTEP, Dope, Crazy Town, Soufly, Sevendust, etc. Basically there are some bands that are way less metal such as Soundgarden (Grunge/alt metal) and Faith No More (Rap metal/alternative metal/experimental) who are on the site. However, FFDP are more of groove metal; like Pantera, A Perfect Murder, Hellyeah, etc. You can tell by the groove-heavy influenced and strong beats and heavy riffs, and angry vocals and stuff and thrash influences. (Although I wouldn't ever call this band thrash metal. Not all groove metal is thrash anyways). Although if you wanna hear their more metalest songs, try these.

^The rejection message said that only one of the physical albums that was pictured seemed to be original. If that's incorrect, sorry, but I can't read Japanese and two of the three cover artworks from the pic matched up with releases that were labeled as "Rearranged anime music" on a sample page Metantoine linked me to. . The one original album pictured in your proof of physical release overall was not metal.

That first song is metal. The second song is not metal, it sounds like pop-punk riffing and the guitars cut out completely for several sections.

None of the albums that were listed on the site as rearranged anime music were included in my submission other than in the proof of release images, I only sent those pictures because they were the only images of physical releases I could find. It's hard to find an image of a physical release, but all albums were sold as a physical release according to his website (http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... HGb_UOIJng)Have you listened to the rest of the songs on the album? http://niusounds.bandcamp.com/album/made-in-akbn Are they considered metal?

They were judged to be more ambient than metal. If you disagree, post links to some samples from the release you think is metal enough.

I might add that I've listened to no less than half a dozen of The Descent of the Sun's releases, and those that were released physically at the time (I think that was about two years ago) were more on the ambient side, while some of the download-only releases were borderline but maybe acceptable music-wise. Still, they are of shitty bedroom quality, and I wouldn't accept them as a valid digital releases. In other words, they can be reconsidered only in case they had some new metal material released on physical medium.

I saw some posts from 2012 about gravesideservice being banned because they weren't metal enough - but a report was just filed and I figured I'd check it out. The last time this was mentioned people were asked to provide samples but it seems they gave up and never did - so back to them. Their first album wasn't really metal - their second and third are though - listen to Popes Pears (especially) and Fog - certainly much different than the debut album

Graveside Service - not predominantly metal, there's a bit of black metal but it's mostly ambient.Earth Divide - Hardcore-based, not metal. Half of it is breakdowns.FFDP - Don't even bother arguing.

Stratovarius Shadowlord wrote:

None of the albums that were listed on the site as rearranged anime music were included in my submission other than in the proof of release images, I only sent those pictures because they were the only images of physical releases I could find. It's hard to find an image of a physical release, but all albums were sold as a physical release according to his website (http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... HGb_UOIJng)Have you listened to the rest of the songs on the album? http://niusounds.bandcamp.com/album/made-in-akbn Are they considered metal?

I'm inclined to say that it's not predominantly metal, while three of the six songs are metal, there's a pop punk song and two others songs that I wouldn't call metal. I'll see what other moderators think of it.

Just for reference, I'm wondering why "Haggis and Bong" have been backlisted since...I don't know when. I was guessing for because it wasn't metal enough. The 2012 release does have guitars...though I'm on the wall about it: https://soundcloud.com/haggisandbong

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But all of them dim and fade 'cause the man named PDS has an other opinion....

Master_Of_Thrash wrote:

All I meant to say was that the band's name doesn't sound ballsy enough for me to listen to it